. >> the san jose mercury news technology columnist is touring the consumer electronics show, tonight at 8:00 eastern on c- span2. >> year standing by for president obama's announcement of sylvia burwell to be his next budget director. he is also expected to announce his georchoice of ernest duenezr the energy department. and gina mccarthy to take the top spot of the environmental protection agency. that is scheduled to take place in about 10 minutes from the east room of the white house if. until then, a discussion of the automatic budget cuts that took place on friday. host: we want to talk this morning about the logistics of sequestration. what is happening in washington? guest: right now there's still a lot of confusion. agencies are trying to figure out how they're going to present their plans to employees. we have only heard from a couple to federal agencies. the defense department of about how they would work cladistics, couple weeks back. the internal revenue service last week. the informant to protect an agency talked about it a little. i was struck talking to people inside a